The countdown for a newly created post of Director (Operations), Air India Limited has started as selection interview is said to have scheduled on May 24. If grapevine is any guide only six candidates have been shortlisted so far for PESB interview. Unlike other CPSEs, it has narrowed down the competition by making flight experience a mandatory one. The post, requires commercial pilot with at least 10,000 hours of flying experience in various type of aircraft available in the passenger transportation in India, of which 5000 hours should be as Pilot-in-Command on any type of aircraft in the current fleet of Air India i.e. Airbus, Boeing and turbo-prop type of aircraft. The post, created in the third week of November last year, was advertised on March 09 this year.